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by bwanab 8y ago
It's not that far off. In both cases, it involved agricultural laborers in a mass migration to jobs in newly opened factories that were building stuff for mostly far off other people.
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by bwanab 8y ago
If we're going to err, we should err on the side of taking the guy at his word. He wants to raise taxes on himself to provide for better distribution of income and educational opportunity. Where's the problem with that?
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by bwanab 8y ago
Not really. The IRS really does know your W2 and all your bank and investment income. If you've worked for several different companies, you often have scattered investments that you have to chase down that, in fact, they already know.
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by bwanab 8y ago
In the 1990s Morgan Stanley's full suite of fixed income portfolio management and trading applications were written in APlus which was another of Arthur Whitney's APL variants. When I joined, MS was moving away from it, but the de
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by bwanab 8y ago
Similar story here. I won my first iPad in a office raffle. I was going to sell it since I figured I'd never use it, but my kids screamed bloody murder so I kept it and I found that I used it all the time, especially for reading docume
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by bwanab 8y ago
At the risk of "appeal to authority", I'm going submit that Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winner in economics. My guess is that he's got his bases pretty well covered.
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You British also have a history of pulling together when times get tough. Maybe it's because of our lack of density, or maybe it's just the people who up and moved here, but as Churchill supposedly said: “Americans can always be t
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by bwanab 8y ago
Well, there used to be four. Dorchester Heights was deconstructed in part to fill in the Back Bay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification_of_Dorchester_He...
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by bwanab 8y ago
I've gone through a lot of guitars including the brands mentioned and I still love my Rick and my Gibson, but I finally found the sound I was looking for a couple of years back when I got my Telecaster.
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by bwanab 8y ago
I'm not sure what's new about it. I couldn't delete Facebook from my Nexus 1 and that was from 2009 or so.
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by bwanab 8y ago
If it helps, I'm over 65 and while I've seen it to an extent in other people my age, it hasn't happened to most of my friends and most importantly, as far as I can tell it hasn't happened to me. Your father notwithstandi
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by bwanab 8y ago
The vast majority of failures in automobile usage today are caused by human conditions that will never affect a machine. Alcohol, drugs, fatigue, social distractions, aggressive driving. Google something like "top causes of automobile
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by bwanab 8y ago
I can't help but to believe that GM and Ford are making the same mistake they made in the early 70s and the 90s. Piling on the big cars when gas prices are low, then watch their share of the market collapse when gas prices get higher a
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by bwanab 8y ago
- police forces - military - prisons
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by bwanab 8y ago
Exactly why I quit managing altogether. One can code or one can manage, but doing both means both are compromised.
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by bwanab 8y ago
Is that really any different than a python developer explaining a piece of code changing the conversation when they realize they're speaking to someone else that's also a python developer?
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by bwanab 8y ago
For all the reasons you give, bad things are going to happen. We don't have time to stop that, but if we start now, we can mitigate the severity of those bad things that do happen and prevent others. The cleanup scenario isn't an
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by bwanab 8y ago
Sadly, booming economies often create the conditions for recession (e.g. supply chain constrictions, pricing distortions). They're hard to predict - often we don't know we're in one until it's been going for months. The
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by bwanab 8y ago
In the article: ------------------- Had Andrew Jackson not overturned the original reconstruction proposal for freed slaves to be given 40 acres and a mule as reparation, instead of simply allowing them to earn wage labor on former slaveown
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by bwanab 8y ago
There are lots of things not to like about the Times, but if you report an inaccuracy to them, they will research it and correct it if needed.
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by bwanab 8y ago
You're right, but specifically, more daylight at the end of the day . I've never figured out how an extra hour of artificial light in the morning is more than offset by one less hour of artificial light in the afternoon.
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by bwanab 8y ago
Yep. That article was spouting disingenuous nonsense in the best possible interpretation I could read into it.
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by bwanab 8y ago
Given that the top one is at Oak Ridge National Lab, my guess would be that they're not exploring deep learning. They've got other applications in mind.
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by bwanab 8y ago
To reduce the heat in what could be an overheated economy. Many economists look at the employment rate as being too low which could signal inflation.
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by bwanab 8y ago
GP meant "reducing balance sheet". When the fed buys long term bonds it issues short term debt thus increasing its balance sheet and incidentally reducing long term rates. During the great financial crisis, the fed bought a lot of
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by bwanab 8y ago
No economist believed that negative interest rates were formally (or informally for that matter) impossible. You might find arguments that real rates (nominal rate minus inflation) should never be negative, but in a deflationary environment
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by bwanab 8y ago
I saw Cary Fowler speak last week. He's the guy that organized the Svalbard vault. He said the news reports on this were highly inaccurate and exaggerated. Their was a small amount of water in the opening area, but it got no where near
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by bwanab 8y ago
I saw Cary Fowler speak last week. He's the guy that organized the Svalbard vault. He said that the seeds are regularly tested. They are rotated when their germination rate goes below 85%.
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by bwanab 8y ago
MS used APlus ( http://www.aplusdev.org/index.html ) a derivative of APL. I was there during the transition and a common attitude in the Fixed Income group was "You'll pry APlus out of my cold dead keyboard".
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by bwanab 9y ago
I'm trying to imagine in what historical period that would have been. Whether the border was that of a modern nation-state, a principality, or a village the effect would have been the same.

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